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Article: Combs, Dick: Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised.(Book review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- January 1, 2009
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Combs, Dick
Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised
University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press
361 pp., $29.95, ISBN 978-0-2710-3355-6
Publication Date: August 2008
A number of participants and supporters of the Reagan presidency have claimed that the administration forced the Soviet Union to end the Cold War with a combination of defense spending and innovations such as the Strategic Defense Initiative, which the Soviet economy and engineers could not match. Such accounts credit Reagan with indirectly destroying what he called "the Evil Empire."